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Search results for Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Years: 2016 - 2019
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Project Title: Fostering Online Investigative Journalism in Central America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster investigative online journalism in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. The digital media outlet will publish transnational investigative pieces on citizen security, organized crime, violence, corruption, and political developments in the sub-region. The group will also collaborate with and mentor more incipient digital media outlets in Central America.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $65,000
Project Title: Promoting Fiscal Transparency Dialogue and Policies in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To advocate for the inclusion of fiscal transparency agendas with political parties, candidates and elected officials in the Northern Triangle. The group will strengthen alliances with civil society actors in to support fiscal transparency reforms and effective governance. In El Salvador and Guatemala, it will assist in strengthening a fiscal transparency agenda of elected officials and political candidates. In Honduras, it will help build alliances between civil society groups and media outlets. The think tank will help civil society develop agendas on fiscal transparency and present them to national authorities.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Fostering a New Generation of Democratic Leaders in Central America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To strengthen the leadership skills and democratic values of emerging young leaders in Central America. The project will carry out an intensive course on strategy formulation and implementation, communications and social marketing, ethics and values, teamwork, conflict resolution skills, and coalition building. Participants will present a final work plan to apply their skills to a new or existing project or organization. Participants will receive mentoring as they implement their projects.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $102,960
Project Title: Leveraging Human Rights Mechanisms for Central America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the capacity of Central American civil society to strategically use the UN human rights system. The grantee will enhance the knowledge of HRDs in the region on reporting and monitoring. The organization will also advocate for governments to improve coordination with the UN, facilitate platforms for dialogue between government and civil society, and explore ways in which civil society can exploit the connections between the UN system and Latin America's own robust Inter-American standards and norms for the benefit of human rights.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $80,000
Project Title: Regional Human Rights Advocacy for Forced Migrants in Panama, Mexico, and Costa Rica
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote due process and respect for refugee rights and to enhance refugee participation in local policy-making and civil society. The organization will continue to advocate for refugee rights policies, strengthen community outreach for refugee communities and provide legal assistance to reinforce migrant rights in Central America.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $65,700
Project Title: Civic Innovation Network Supporting Democratic Resilience and Security
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To convene civic innovators, political parties, civil society groups, citizen leaders and elected officials in four targeted countries to collaboratively analyze and design innovative solutions to challenges of citizen security and other threats undermining democratic institutions. After discussing the social and political context for these challenges, participants will organize hackathons in each country to design technology-enabled solutions. The institute will provide seed funding to pilot the most promising ideas. After the conclusion of these activities, the institute will host an event at a major international civic innovation conference or gathering to encourage direct peer-to-peer learning and networking among the participants.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $90,000
Project Title: Building and Strengthening Modern Democratic Unions in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To strengthen the capacity of Central American trade unions to represent workers' interests in the agriculture, telecommunications, and transportation sectors. The center will provide training and technical assistance to trade unions in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua to utilize worker rights instruments to defend freedom of association; establish participatory, democratic unions; negotiate collective bargaining agreements and resolve labor disputes. The institute will foster union leadership representing a broader base of workers, including underrepresented workers such as women, youth, migrant, indigenous, and subcontracted workers.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $575,000
Project Title: Improving Public Integrity and Transparency Practices in the Northern Triangle
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To address the public integrity challenges in Central America's Northern Triangle that are undermining confidence in democratic institutions. The institute will support efforts by political and civic leaders to strengthen government transparency and reduce corruption. The institute will capitalize on international and domestic attention on public integrity to foster new mechanisms for civic organizations to engage key actors in congresses and political parties to adopt a reform agenda.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $408,726
Project Title: Juntos Prevenimos
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To support rural municipalities in the Northern Triangle in efforts to boost their capacity to use data and dialogue to solve security problems. Local citizen security groups in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras will collect and analyze data and public opinion relevant to crime and violence. In partnership with these groups, the institute will help average citizens learn from policy experts and contribute their own ideas through an innovative town hall methodology and deliberative democracy polling.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $500,000
Project Title: Building and Strengthening Modern Democratic Unions in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To strengthen the capacity of Central American trade unions to represent workers' interests in the agriculture, telecommunications, and transportation sectors. The center will provide training and technical assistance to trade unions in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua to utilize worker rights instruments to defend freedom of association; establish participatory, democratic unions; negotiate collective bargaining agreements and resolve labor disputes; and build union leadership representing a broader base of workers, including underrepresented workers such as women, youth, migrant, indigenous, and subcontracted workers.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $517,817
Project Title: Strengthening Coalitions for Greater Accountability and Citizen Security in the Northern Triangle
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To address the destructive effects of increased criminal violence and persistent corruption on democratic governance and public institutions in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The institute will enhance the capacity of civic organizations and political leaders to build consensus on national and regional reform agendas and to develop and pass legislation to reduce impunity and improve citizen security.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $485,000
Project Title: Juntos Decidimos
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To help rural municipalities in the Northern Triangle increase their capacity in participatory decision-making and data analysis to develop public policies on citizen security. The institute will help local citizen security interest groups, comprised of public officials and citizens in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, to collect and analyze both data and public opinion relevant to crime and violence. Using these findings and information gathered from crime and violence experts, these groups will introduce ideas in municipal forums leading to new policies.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $545,000
Project Title: Building and Strengthening Modern Democratic Unions in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To strengthen the capacity of Central American trade unions to represent workers' interests in the agriculture and transportation sectors, the Center will provide training and technical assistance to trade unions in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua to utilize worker rights instruments to defend freedom of association; establish participatory, democratic unions; negotiate collective bargaining agreements and resolve labor disputes; and build union leadership representing a broader base of workers, including underrepresented workers such as women, youth, migrant, indigenous, seasonal and subcontracted workers.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $571,700
Project Title: Unidos Avanzamos
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To improve the ability of rural municipalities in Central America to effectively respond to citizen security needs. The institute will assist local citizen security actors in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras through a series of trainings intended to improve the design and management of crime and violence prevention projects. Supplementing this enhanced capacity, the institute will co-sponsor crime and violence prevention projects and the provide a locally-tailored resource toolkit.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $405,000
Project Title: Strengthening Coalitions for Greater Accountability in the Northern Triangle
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To address the corrosive effects of persistent corruption and impunity on democratic governance and public institutions in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The Institute will continue to work with civil society and legislators in each country to develop and institute more effective public integrity mechanisms to combat corruption and impunity and to design and implement anti-corruption and impunity efforts utilizing lessons learned and best practices from exchanges with counterparts in the Northern Triangle region.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $350,000
Project Title: Building and Strengthening Modern Democratic Unions in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To strengthen the capacity of Central American trade unions to represent workers' interests in the agriculture and transportation sectors. The center will provide training and technical assistance to trade unions in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua to utilize worker rights instruments to defend freedom of association; establish participatory, democratic unions; negotiate collective bargaining agreements and resolve labor disputes. It will also build union leadership representing a broader base of workers, including underrepresented workers such as women, youth, migrant, indigenous, seasonal and subcontracted workers.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $528,720
Project Title: Strengthening Coalitions for Greater Accountability in the Northern Triangle
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen democratic governance and public institutions in the Northern Triangle countries. The institute will work with civil society organizations, political parties, oversight and electoral institutions, and legislatures in each country to develop, implement and monitor more effective public integrity mechanisms to prevent corruption and promote transparency. The institute will also help partners to design and implement a regional strategy to promote accountability and legislative openness utilizing lessons learned and best practices from sub regional exchanges.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $575,000
Project Title: Building Commitment on Transparency and Anti-Corruption through Dialogue
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Central America Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To obtain commitment in a polarized environment among a broad spectrum of stakeholders to fight corruption and promote transparency. The institute will support key sectors of society (government, CSO, media, academia, and private sector) in identifying causes and initiatives to reduce corruption. Through a series of guided dialogues, the institute will provide a safe-space to share opposing views, moving from small agreements to larger ones, overcoming differences and identifying common approaches to result in consensus solutions to fight corruption.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $350,000
Project Title: Democratic Solidarity
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster effective international solidarity to defend and promote democracy and human rights. The organization will continue to foster the institutionalization of the Democratic Solidarity platform, a broad coalition of democratic activists. The platform will define strategies and actions to sustain democracy in the region, build international support for democracy and human rights in the region. The organization will leverage its international network to share lessons learned regarding democratic transitions and governance challenges.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $113,289
Project Title: Defending Democratic Institutions and Norms in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen the role of civil society throughout Latin America in defending democratic institutions and the norms enshrined in the Inter-American System and other multilateral bodies. The grantee will maintain an active presence in multilateral fora to uphold universal human rights and democratic norms and advocate for civil society leaders from repressive regimes. The organization will carry out a series of actions to strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations to uphold democratic norms and human rights standards in their countries and the region. Finally, the organization will consolidate its institutional structure and modernize its communications strategies.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $115,000
Project Title: The Foreign Policy and Democracy Monitoring Project: Who's Respecting Next Generation Rights?
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To monitor the performance of Latin American governments in multilateral forums on matters related to human rights and democracy. Through a series of publications and public events, the grantee will raise awareness of the importance of multilateral norms and institutions in protecting human rights and democratic values. The organization will also provide knowledge and tools to journalists and activists working on these issues to promote greater accountability of Latin American governments for their human rights record in multilateral bodies.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Journal of Democracy in Portuguese
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: The organization will produce an online version of the Journal of Democracy in Portuguese to contribute to information sharing and debate on democracy-related issues among Portuguese speaking audiences in Brazil, Africa and Europe. The grantee will publish two issues per year, translating at least four selected articles from the English version of the journal for each issue and actively disseminating the online material.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $21,300
Project Title: Strengthening the Capacity of Human Rights Defenders to Promote and Protect their Rights before the UN System and the OAS
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To enhance the knowledge and advocacy skills of Cuban human rights defenders. The organization will train Afro-descendent women leaders to use the Inter-American System of Human Rights to advocate for greater respect for their rights. In addition, the organization will work with human rights activists to advocate for their interests in specific agencies of the UN Human Rights System.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $290,000
Project Title: Advocating for the Independence and Sustainability of the Inter-American System
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the independence and effectiveness of the Inter-American System through increased financial sustainability and civil society oversight; and to promote adequate civil society participation before the Organization of American States. The organization will mobilize a regional coalition to advocate for the financial sustainability and political independence of the IAHRS. The group will educate member states, civil society, and the public at large on the contributions of the System to democratic and human rights standards.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $100,000
Project Title: Strengthening Implementation of Universal Norms in Central America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the implementation of the UN Human Rights Committee's recommendations on protecting civil and political rights in the region. The organization will raise awareness about the most recent recommendations issued, establish a mechanism for ongoing dialogue and cooperation between government and civil society regarding implementation, and assist civil society in enhancing their capacity to monitor and track progress on implementation.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $48,000
Project Title: Defending Democratic Institutions and Norms in Latin America and the Caribbean
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen the role of civil society throughout Latin America in defending democratic institutions and the norms enshrined in the Inter-American System and other multi-lateral bodies. The organization will advocate for effective civil society participation in multilateral forums to uphold universal human rights and democratic norms. The organization will carry out actions to strengthen the advocacy capacity of its members, particularly those defending the rights of minority groups. Finally, the organization will continue to strengthen its institutional structure and modernize its communications strategies.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $115,000
Project Title: Emerging Leaders: Building Democratic Governance in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen the capacity of emerging leaders in civil society and in public office to foster democratic governance in Latin America, and to promote the exchange of best practices on innovative and democratic governance among those individuals. The organization will consolidate the online-based Political Innovation Academy, which trains current or aspiring policy-makers on democratic governance. It will also continue supporting the Network of Political Innovation.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $100,000
Project Title: Countering the Misuse of Public Funds in the Americas
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To work with civil society partner organizations and universities to raise public awareness about governmental misuse of public funds and its impact on democracy in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina. The grantee organization will also produce a regional policy brief on the topic, identify strategic legislative allies, and provide resources, trainings and workshops for civil society groups in each country to support advocacy campaigns on this issue.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $90,496
Project Title: LabCivico: Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster innovative leadership to address democratic governance challenges in Latin America. The organization will conduct its school of advocacy program to train emerging leaders in civil society, especially those who may take active roles in government, to address governance challenges through a constructive and inclusive approach. The grantee will transfer the best and most successful practices from within Latin America to the Andean region.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $85,000
Project Title: Strengthening Dialogue and Advocacy between Faith-Based Organizations and Civil Society in Defense of Democracy
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen dialogue and joint advocacy between faith-based organizations and civil society at large in defense of human rights and democracy. The grantee will work with its network of partners to organize a series of public panel discussions and roundtables in six selected Latin American countries. In addition, the grantee will work with faith-based organizations, experts, and other civil society groups to develop joint advocacy plans and to engage with public officials on issues related to the intersection of religion and public policy.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Promoting Collaborative Journalism on Indigenous Issues
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To increase journalists' investigative and editing skills regarding indigenous issues and strengthen cross-border, cross-media and cross-sector collaboration; and to promote media coverage and public discussion of critical transnational indigenous issues. The organization will produce in-depth reports from on transnational indigenous people's issues in Latin America. The organization will hold a sub-regional event and create a network to report on indigenous people's issues.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Strengthening Youth Advocacy in Central America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen the capacity of Central American youth organizations to effectively participate in the democratic process and regional integration efforts. The Salvadoran-based organization will continue to work with a representative group of youth organizations in each Central American country and provide training and strategic orientation in political advocacy and project development.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $85,000
Project Title: Raising Awareness of Hate Speech, Crime and Discrimination against Vulnerable Populations in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness of growing violence, discrimination, and human rights violations against vulnerable populations and to improve the quality of press coverage of human rights violations, hate speech, and crimes against those groups in key countries of Latin America. The organization will continue developing its digital portal and fostering high quality press coverage to generate awareness about cases of hate speech, violence, and human rights violations committed against vulnerable groups, included sexual minorities. It will continue to provide training on journalistic best practices in order to increase the rigor, quality, and quantity of reporting on these issues in Latin America.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $85,000
Project Title: Fostering Online Investigative Journalism in Central America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster investigative online journalism in Central America's Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. The Salvadoran-based grantee will support an online media portal specializing in coverage of citizen security, transnational crime and violence, corruption, and political issues in the sub-region. It will produce hard-hitting investigative pieces on these critical issues and collaborate with like-minded media, universities, and civil society organizations.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $70,000
Project Title: A Regional Approach to Promoting Democratic Values in Cuba
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To support and raise the visibility of pro-democracy actors and human rights advocates in Latin America. The grantee will promote greater international awareness of the efforts of democracy activists to ensure greater political pluralism throughout the region.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $129,150
Project Title: Strengthening the Credibility and Independence of the Inter-American System
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the credibility and independence of the Inter-American System; and to promote the exchange of information between UN and Inter-American institutions to harmonize standards and promote enforcement. The organization will mobilize a coalition of civil society organizations to advocate for transparent and participatory processes in the nomination and selection of IAHRS commissioners and judges. This coalition will carry out advocacy and informational activities to promote practices in line with other international human rights bodies. The group will also promote the exchange of information and standards between the Inter-American and the United Nations systems on issues of business and human rights.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $108,000
Project Title: Strengthening Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen the protection of freedom of expression on the internet in Latin America. The organization will strengthen its monitoring efforts of internet governance and carry out civil society capacity building activities through trainings. It will also draft policy papers and advocate for the protection of existing standards and the regulation of digital rights and internet access in the region, especially with regional organizations such as the OAS.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $85,800
Project Title: Latin American Youth Network for Democracy
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote democratic solidarity and defend democratic norms among youth activists in Latin America. The grantee will work to strengthen the institutional capacity and expand the work of the Latin American Youth Network for Democracy as a regional platform for youth activists and political leaders to foster civic participation of youth, identify common threats to democracy, and coordinate activities to mutually support their objectives. The group will engage with Latin American governments and OAS officials to defend democratic norms as enshrined in the Inter-American Democratic Charter. Additionally, it will organize a series of forums to discuss democracy and youth-related issues in the region and share best practices to address them.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $100,000
Project Title: Journal of Democracy in Portuguese
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To contribute to information sharing and debate on democracy-related issues among Portuguese speaking audiences in Brazil, Africa and Europe. The grantee will produce an online and a print version of the Journal of Democracy in Portuguese. It will publish two issues per year, translating at least four selected articles from the English version of the Journal for each issue and actively disseminating the online material.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $27,900
Project Title: Democratic Solidarity
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote effective international solidarity to defend and promote democracy and human rights. The organization will continue to foster the institutionalization of the Democratic Solidarity platform, a broad coalition of democratic activists from Latin America and beyond. The platform will define strategies and actions to sustain democracy and build international support for democracy and human rights in the region. The organization will leverage its international network to share lessons learned regarding democratic transitions and governance challenges.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $128,884
Project Title: Bringing Venezuelan Kleptocrats to Justice
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To facilitate a platform of international experts and researchers to investigate corrupt and illegal activities carried out by Venezuelan kleptocrats in jurisdictions outside Venezuela and to improve collaboration between Venezuelan activists and international decision-makers. The group will expand a database to map the business and family relations of Venezuelans sanctioned by foreign governments, and produce actionable dossiers for other decision-makers in targeted countries. The group will also work with investigative journalists to raise public awareness on the effects of Venezuelan kleptocracy.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $67,300
Project Title: Strengthening the Capacity of Nascent Civil Society Organizations
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To strengthen the capacity of nascent organizations to defend the rights of vulnerable groups and report human rights violations and to raise awareness of closing democratic space in Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Through trainings, mentoring and small grants, the organization will consolidate new civil society voices in each country, and support human rights initiatives to raise domestic and international awareness on closing democratic space. The group will also foster cooperation and help human rights organizations advocate before regional and international audiences.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $110,000
Project Title: Latin American Youth Network for Democracy
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote democratic solidarity and defend democratic norms among youth activists in Latin America. The organization will engage Latin American governments and regional multilateral bodies to defend democratic norms as enshrined in the Inter-American Democratic Charter and advocate for consideration of youth interests in the regional policy agendas. Additionally, it will organize campaigns to bring attention to democratic challenges in the region as well as national forums to discuss democracy and youth-related issues and share best practices to address them.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $100,000
Project Title: Increasing Transparency and Accountability in Chinese Investments
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote greater understanding and increased transparency in Chinese investments in Latin America and their impact on social, environmental and accountability standards. Working with partners in four countries in the region, the grantee will articulate a strategy to conduct research, analysis and oversight of Chinese investments in the infrastructure sector. Through publications, infographics and an advocacy campaign, the organization will promote increased transparency and access to information.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $75,166
Project Title: Building Democratic Governance
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen the capacity of young leaders in civil society seeking office or those already participating in public service to foster political innovation and democratic governance in Latin America, and to promote the exchange of best practices on political innovation and governance among civil society activists in the region. The organization will launch the Political Innovation Academy, based on a digital platform, to provide effective online training on democratic governance for individuals participating or aspiring to participate in policy-making. It will also continue developing and implementing successful initiatives such as the Network of Political Innovation and its training seminars with low-cost tools for effective and constructive engagement and advocacy for civil society.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $80,000
Project Title: Promoting Respect for Democratic and Human Rights Norms
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen and expand a coalition of Latin American and European human rights and democracy actors and institutions working to defend universal democratic values. The organization will raise awareness in European and UN institutions on the deteriorating democratic and human rights conditions in key Latin American countries. The organization will foster greater collaboration and interaction between European and Latin American actors, countries, and institutions in support of shared global democratic and human rights principles. These efforts will yield official statements in support of democratic principles to counter t the emergence of authoritarian trends.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $65,000
Project Title: Promoting Respect for Democratic and Human Rights Norms
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen and expand a coalition of Latin American and European human rights and democracy actors and institutions working to defend democratic values. The organization will raise awareness in European and UN institutions on the deteriorating democratic and human rights conditions in key Latin American countries. It also will foster greater collaboration and interaction between European and Latin American actors, countries, and institutions in support of shared global democratic and human rights principles. These efforts will yield official statements in support of democratic principles to counter the emergence of authoritarian trends.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Promoting New Standards for Investigating Threats against Human Rights Defenders
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To advance due diligence standards for investigating threats against human rights defenders; and to raise awareness on threats, violence, and impunity against human rights defenders in the Americas. The organization will facilitate thematic, multi-stakeholder working groups and in-person consultations with United Nations and Inter-American officials and human rights experts to develop new international standards. It will also promote the adoption of best practices and increase enforcement of existing standards through strategic litigation before the Inter-American System.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $90,975
Project Title: Democratic Solidarity
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote effective international solidarity to defend and promote democracy and human rights. The organization will continue to foster the institutionalization of the Democratic Solidarity platform, a broad coalition of democratic activists from Latin America. The platform will define strategies and actions to sustain democracy and build international support for democracy and human rights in the region. The organization will leverage its international network to share lessons learned regarding democratic transitions and governance challenges.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $124,863
Project Title: Increasing Civil Society Oversight of Chinese Investments in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen the negotiation and advocacy skills of indigenous communities in the Amazon region to demand enforcement of domestic and international environmental and human rights safeguards. Working with partners in four countries the grantee will promote understanding of the normative framework and potential recourse mechanisms for communities affected by large-scale Chinese investments. The group will facilitate the creation of a regional network to monitor Chinese investments in the Amazon region, which will share information, make statements, and advocate for the enforcement of domestic and regional environmental, human rights, and transparency standards.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $75,000
Project Title: Defending Democratic Institutions and Norms in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen the role of civil society throughout Latin America in defending democratic institutions and the norms enshrined in the Inter-American System and other multilateral bodies. The organization will maintain an active presence in multilateral forums to uphold universal human rights and democratic norms. Additionally, it will carry out a series of actions to strengthen the advocacy capacity of its members, particularly those defending the rights of minority groups. Finally, the organization will continue to strengthen its institutional structure and modernize its communications strategies.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $115,000
Project Title: Promoting Collaborative Journalism
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To increase journalists' investigative skills and strengthen cross-border, cross-media, and cross-sector collaboration; and to promote media coverage and public discussion of critical transnational issues. The grantee will launch an online training program to identify rising journalist stars, boost their investigative techniques, and provide them with financial and editorial support to carry out their investigative projects. In addition, it will organize virtual and in-person dialogues on issues of public interest in partnership with civil society, universities and government entities.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $89,775
Project Title: Anti-Corruption Network in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To foster anti-corruption reforms in Latin America. The grantee will convene partner organizations to formalize an anti-corruption network and hold a regional meeting among them to establish communication and working strategies. It will also launch a digital platform to disseminate the network's materials, and a periodic newsletter to highlight findings and best practices.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $84,615
Project Title: Empowering Community and Civil Society Participation
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description:
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $60,520
Project Title: Strengthening the Latin American Anti-Corruption Network
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote the understanding of institutional sources of corruption and anti-corruption reforms in Latin America, and to strengthen REAL as a network and a key regional actor in anti-corruption efforts. The network will produce policy-relevant, comparative analyses of the causes and effects of corruption cases in the region, and will strengthen the advocacy capacity of the member organizations.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $79,851
Project Title: School of Advocacy: Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen local governments' capacity to include and encourage citizen participation in the policy-making process and their capacity to tackle democratic governance challenges in Latin America. The organization will prepare local and national government staff with skills, knowledge, and tools for building multi-stakeholder approaches to tackling key governance challenges. The organization will focus on Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico, and will continue building a community to share knowledge and best practices on principles and tools of democratic governance across Latin America.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $196,000
Project Title: Defending Democratic Institutions and Norms in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen the role of civil society throughout Latin America in defending democratic institutions and the norms enshrined in the Inter-American System and other multi-lateral bodies. Advocacy will be carried out in favor of more effective civil society participation in multilateral forums to uphold universal human rights and democratic norms. Additionally, a series of actions will take place to strengthen the advocacy capacity of its members, particularly those defending the rights of minority groups. Finally, the organization's institutional structure and communications strategies will be strengthened.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $113,000
Project Title: Strengthening Youth Advocacy in Central America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen the capacity of Central American youth organizations to effectively participate in the democratic process and regional integration efforts. The organization will continue to work with a representative group of youth organizations in each Central American country and provide training and strategic orientation in political advocacy, project development, and effective network building.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $85,000
Project Title: Limiting the Spread of Venezuelan Corruption
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster greater understanding of the spillover effects of Venezuelan corruption and criminal activity on the democratic governance of other Latin American countries; and to offer policy recommendations to close legislative and enforcement loopholes. The organization will work with investigative journalists and partner organizations in Venezuela, Colombia, Honduras and the Dominican Republic to document the criminal penetration of the Venezuelan state, and its repercussions on transnational crime and democratic governance.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $75,000
Project Title: Venezuelan Oil Diplomacy
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To increase transparency and accountability on the impact of Venezuela's preferential oil sales on the diplomatic positions of certain Caribbean and Central American countries; and to strengthen collaborative, transnational journalism. The organization will bring together 10 journalists from Central America, the Caribbean, and Venezuela to exchange information and identify areas of investigation that shed light into Venezuela's Petrocaribe investment, its impact on local corruption, and geopolitical relations.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $54,840
Project Title: Expanding the Digital Democracy Room in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance the digital and informational integrity of electoral and political processes in Latin America. The organization will expand its Digital Democracy Room initiative to Argentina, Colombia, and Peru. It will train and collaborate with local partners to use its methodologies, sharing lessons, and best practices developed through the implementation of this initiative to monitor and counteract disinformation in social media and the internet during the Brazilian elections of 2018.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $180,000
Project Title: Strengthening Dialogue between Faith-Based Organizations and Civil Society in Defense of Human Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen dialogue and joint advocacy between faith-based organizations (FBOs) and civil society at large in defense of human rights. The grantee will work with its network of partners in six Latin American countries to build the capacity and leadership of FBOs and civil society groups on issues of human rights. In addition, the grantee will work with FBOs, experts, and other civil society groups to carry out participatory dialogue sessions and help them develop joint advocacy plans for engaging in the public sphere.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $66,480
Project Title: Latin American Youth Network for Democracy
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote democratic solidarity and defend democratic norms among youth activists in Latin America. The network will serve as a regional platform for youth activists and political leaders to foster civic participation of youth, identify common threats to democracy, and coordinate activities to mutually support their objectives. The grantee will engage Latin American governments and multilateral bodies to defend democratic norms as enshrined in the Inter-American Democratic Charter and advocate for consideration of youth interests in the regional policy agendas. Additionally, it will organize campaigns and forums to rally support for salient democratic issues, discuss democracy and youth-related issues, and share best practices to address them.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $93,888
Project Title: Democratic Solidarity
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster effective international solidarity to defend and promote democracy and human rights in the region. The organization will continue to support the Democratic Solidarity platform, a broad coalition of Latin American democratic activists. The platform will define strategies and actions to promote regional and international support for democracy and human rights. Additionally, the organization will leverage its international network to share lessons learned regarding democratic transitions and governance challenges
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $112,909
Project Title: Strengthening the Capacity of Human Rights Defenders to Promote and Protect their Rights Before the UN System and the OAS
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To enhance the knowledge and advocacy skills of Cuban human rights defenders. The organization will train Afro-descendent women leaders to use the Inter-American System of Human Rights to advocate for greater respect for their rights. In addition, the organization will work with human rights activists to advocate for their interests in specific agencies of the UN Human Rights System.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $290,000
Project Title: Advocating for Legislative Implementation of Inter-American Freedom of Expression Standards in the Americas
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To promote the right to freedom of expression as recognized in the Inter-American Democratic Charter. Assistance will be provided to legislators and civil society to promote, enshrine, and implement Inter-American freedom of expression (FOE) standards in countries that are lagging behind in their implementation or that have adopted norms contrary to them. It will also work to foster greater respect for Inter-American FOE standards in Cuba and Venezuela.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $108,758
Project Title: Enhancing Governance through Improved Fiscal Policy in Central America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To consolidate support for and coordinate with government officials to improve democratic governance and fiscal policies in Central America. The organization will build upon and expand its working relationships with various government agencies to offer technical support for drafting fiscal reform initiatives, and in turn enhance the capacity of government officials throughout Central America. It will also enhance its coordination with key civil society organizations in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador working on the fiscal transparency component of the Open Government Partnership in each country.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $85,000
Project Title: School of Advocacy: Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To foster innovative leadership from civil society and government to address democratic governance challenges in Latin America. Through a new edition of its School of Advocacy program, the organization will continue empowering emerging leaders in civil society and government in Colombia, Ecuador and Guatemala with skills, knowledge, and tools for building multi-stakeholder approaches to tackling key governance challenges, such as public security, accountability, and social exclusion. The organization will continue building a network that supports principles and tools of democratic governance within countries in Latin America, with an emphasis on transfer of best and most successful practices.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $107,975
Project Title: Increasing Civil Society Oversight of Chinese Investments in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To increase civil society debate and understanding of Chinese economic investment and political influence in Latin America and to advocate for the respect of human rights, environmental and transparency standards in Chinese-financed infrastructure projects. Through a regional civil society coalition, the organization will articulate civil society, indigenous, and academic efforts to analyze bilateral agreements, publish research on the impact of China in Latin American strategic sectors and lending practices, and monitor the impact of Chinese investments on indigenous communities in the Amazon Basin.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $75,000
Project Title: Fostering Online Investigative Journalism in Central America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster investigative online journalism in Central America's Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. The Salvadoran-based grantee will support an online media portal specializing in coverage of citizen security, transnational crime and violence, corruption, and political issues in the region. It will produce hard-hitting investigative pieces on these critical issues and collaborate with like-minded media, universities, and civil society organizations.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $65,000
Project Title: Mapping Venezuelan Corruption
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To increase transparency and accountability in the Venezuelan government procurement processes; and to foster collaboration with journalists across the region. The organization will help unmask an international web of relations between Venezuelan government contractors and international investors, and collaborate with Latin American journalists to research and publish a series of in-depth articles mapping Venezuelan corruption.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $62,087
Project Title: Fostering Online Investigative Journalism and Public Policy Debate in Central America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster investigative online journalism in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. The grantee will run an online media portal specializing in coverage of citizen security, transnational crime, corruption, and political issues. The grantee will consolidate their online presence and develop working relationships with like-minded media, universities and civil society groups to provide a media outlet for pluralistic voices of young political influencers.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $62,000
Project Title: Promoting Collaborative In-Depth Journalism
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To increase journalists' investigative reporting skills and strengthen cross-border, cross-media and cross-sector collaboration; and to promote media coverage and public discussion of critical transnational issues, such as corruption. In addition to training and financial assistance, the organization will provide editorial support to the journalists and launch a school for editors to help improve the quality of their products.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $185,856
Project Title: Supporting Independent Journalists and Digital Activists in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enable journalists and activists to share digital media best practices and further their cross-border collaboration throughout Latin America. The organization will strengthen a dynamic regional network of independent journalists and activists running their own digital media projects in 12 countries. The group will manage the network, share best practices and success stories, and actively encourage collaboration between members of the network.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Latin American Connections for Political Innovation (CLIP)
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen the capacity of civil society actors and organizations to engage in constructive political action. The organization will launch the initiative Latin American Connections for Political Innovation to promote cross-country sharing and learning on the topics of successful political innovation and democratic governance experiences. The organization will foster the emergence of new effective democratic leadership to address challenges to democratic governance.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $74,960
Project Title: Promoting LGBT Political Participation and Leadership
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote LGBT political participation and leadership in the region. The organization will work with LGBT human rights activists in Colombia, Peru, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and Cuba. It will work with partner organizations in Peru and Colombia to establish open dialogue with political parties and to advance the rights of the LGBT community to participate in party activities and institutions. The group will also develop an LGBT network and bring together its members, other activists, and political leaders in the region at a conference in the Dominican Republic.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $75,000
Project Title: Promoting Fiscal Transparency and Policy Dialogue in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: The grantee is a Guatemala-based organization focused on the Central American sub-region. Through this program, the grantee will enhance legislators' capacity to develop and reform fiscal policies and promote fiscal transparency in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Fiscal reform is a priority for many Latin American countries, and is a particularly pressing need in Central America which has the lowest levels of fiscal capacity in the LAC region. Thus, governments struggle to fund public programs, foster economic development, address inequality, ensure the provision of basic public goods, and respond to popular expectations. Based on international experiences in this field, the grantee will meet with congressional leaders in these countries to equip them to better understand and impleme
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $75,000
Project Title: Strengthening Accountability in the Use of Public Funds
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen civil society's oversight of the use of public funds in Latin America and its capacity to advocate for accountability in the region, and to promote integrity as key aspects of democratic development. The organization will lead a coalition of organizations from Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Paraguay and Peru. The coalition will promote public awareness of the negative effects of the misuse of public funds, and will advocate at the national and regional level for the transparent use of public funds.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $75,081
Project Title: Advocating for Legislative Implementation of Inter-American Freedom of Expression Standards in the Americas
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To promote the right to freedom of expression as recognized in the Inter-American Democratic Charter. The grantee will assist in promoting, enshrining, and implementing Inter-American freedom of expression (FOE) standards in countries that are lagging behind in their implementation or that have adopted norms contrary to them. It will also work to foster greater respect for Inter-American FOE standards in Cuba.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $115,936
Project Title: Fostering Gender Justice with Transparency and Collaboration in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To strengthen institutional mechanisms to prevent gender violence in Latin America and to enhance civil society capacity to monitor the judiciary's performance regarding the eradication of violence against women in Latin America. The grantee will continue working with a network of organizations in six countries in Latin America to deepen their capacity to monitor judiciary performance regarding violence against women. It will work with agents of change within the judiciary and the public prosecutor's offices to implement international standards of women's rights protection. It will lead efforts to transfer best practices for collaborative and constructive and will public awareness efforts with international organizations and the population at large.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $26,300
Project Title: Promoting Cross-Border Collaboration on Investigative Reporting
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen a network of investigative journalists engaged in collaborative, cross-border reporting throughout Latin America. This collaboration will promote better journalism and security for journalists, and will reduce barriers to freedom of the press, such as censorship and self-censorship. It will also offer a counter narrative to government propaganda in authoritarian states. The grantee will mentor and work with journalists in several countries to produce news reports and build capacity in investigative journalism techniques, and it will amplify the audience for their reports through partnerships with different news media platforms across the region.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $85,866
Project Title: Supporting Civil Society Strategic Engagement
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To facilitate regional discussions on and promote the inclusion of human rights standards in the policy commitments made by the G20; and to strengthen the capacity of Latin American civil society organizations to engage in the 2018 C20 and G20 processes. The group will facilitate dialogue, consensus, and policy recommendations around priority issues. Through workshops and advocacy, it will break down barriers between civil society, labor, and business groups to collectively advocate for bold policy commitments by G20 governments in relation to human rights.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $75,296
Project Title: Strengthening the Latin American Anti-Corruption Network
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote the understanding of institutional sources of corruption and anti-corruption reforms in Latin America, and to strengthen a network and key regional actor in anti-corruption efforts. The network will produce policy-relevant, comparative analyses of the causes and effects of corruption cases in the region and will strengthen the advocacy capacity of the member organizations.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $80,000
Project Title: Promoting Innovation in Youth Leadership
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen the capacity of young leaders in civil society seeking office or those already participating in public service to foster political innovation and democratic governance in Latin America and to promote the exchange of best practices on political innovation and governance among civil society activists in the region. The organization will launch the Political Innovation Academy, based on a digital platform to provide effective online training on 21st century democratic governance for people participating or aspiring to participate in policy-making. It will also continue developing and implementing successful initiatives such as the Network of Political Innovation and its training seminars with low-cost tools for effective and constructive engagement and advocacy for civil society
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $65,000
Project Title: A Regional Approach to Promoting Democratic Values in Cuba
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To support and raise the visibility of pro-democracy actors and human rights advocates in Latin America. The grantee will promote greater international awareness of the efforts of democracy activists to promote greater political pluralism throughout the region.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $115,000
Project Title: Denouncing Violence against Gender Minorities in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness of growing violence, discrimination, and human rights violations against vulnerable populations and to improve the quality of press coverage of human rights violations, hate speech, and crimes against those groups in Latin America. The organization will expand its digital portal to generate awareness about human rights violations committed against vulnerable groups, including sexual minorities. It will continue to foster journalistic best practices in order to increase the rigor, quality, and quantity of reporting on these issues in Latin America.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $175,000
Project Title: Empowering Community and Civil Society Participation
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description:
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $56,218
Project Title: School of Advocacy: Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To foster innovative leadership from civil society and government to address democratic governance challenges in Latin America. Through a new edition of its School of Advocacy program, the organization will continue empowering emerging leaders in civil society and government in Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua with skills, knowledge, and tools for building multi-stakeholder approaches to tackling key governance challenges. The organization will continue building knowledge and practice communities in Latin America, with an emphasis on transfer of best and most successful practices.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $108,000
Project Title: Raising Awareness on Human Rights Conditions in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness in European and UN institutions on the deteriorating democratic and human rights conditions in Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua; and to enhance understanding and use of international mechanisms to uphold human rights standards and protections. The organization will travel to European capitals to organize events and meet with key decision-makers and civil society to denounce human rights abuses. Similarly, it will meet with civil society and political leaders in Latin America to increase their understanding and use of international human rights bodies including the International Criminal Court and the UN.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $55,095
Project Title: Informed Elections: Collaborative Efforts to Fight Disinformation
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen collaborative efforts to fight disinformation in electoral contexts in Latin America. The organization will collect information, measure the impact and identify the best practices in projects using fact-checking to fight disinformation around elections. It will design standardized indicators to measure impact in future collaborative efforts, and will develop recommendations and materials to build successful coalitions to implement this kind of programs in the future.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Countering Grand Corruption through the International Human Rights Framework
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote the use of international human rights law and expand the interpretation of existing international standards to address issues of entrenched transnational corruption and to facilitate a multidisciplinary approach in upholding international human rights standards. The organization will create a taskforce to analyze and expand existing human rights standards to counter entrenched corruption. Through this taskforce, public hearings and expert meetings, the group will also facilitate the exchange of information, experiences, and legal tools between two distinct communities of practice.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $100,000
Project Title: A Regional Approach to Promoting Democratic Values in Cuba
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To support and raise the visibility of pro-democracy actors and human rights advocates in Latin America. The grantee will promote greater international awareness of the efforts of democracy activists to ensure greater political pluralism throughout the region, with an emphasis on those countries where democracy is either absent or at greater risk.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $132,000
Project Title: Strengthening the Capacity of Human Rights Defenders to Promote and Protect their Rights before the OAS and the UN Systems
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To enhance the knowledge and advocacy skills of Cuban human rights defenders. The organization will train Afro-descendent women leaders to use the Inter-American System of Human Rights to advocate for greater respect for their rights. In addition, the organization will work with human rights activists to advocate for their interests in specific agencies of the UN Human Rights System.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $300,000
Project Title: Strengthening Accountability in the Use of Public Funds
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen civil society's oversight of the use of public funds in Latin America, and their capacity to advocate for accountability in the region. The grantee will lead a coalition of organizations in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala and Paraguay. The coalition will further consolidate as a network that promotes public awareness of the negative effects to democracy and everyday life that the misuse of public funds generates. The coalition will work with other civil society organizations to strengthen social oversight of public funds, and will advocate with political actors to promote institutional integrity and a transparent use of public funds.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $80,000
Project Title: Promoting Freedom of Expression and Internet Freedom in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen the protection of freedom of expression on the Internet in Latin America. The organization will expand the work of its Freedom of Expression on the Internet Initiative and carry out trainings for freedom of expression activists on digital rights and internet governance. It will bolster its capacity for regional monitoring of freedom of expression and internet governance, and will advocate for the protection and strengthening of existing standards for the regulation of digital rights and internet access in the region.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $85,067
Project Title: Supporting Independent Journalists in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enable journalists to share digital media best practices and further their cross-border collaboration throughout Latin America. The organization will strengthen a dynamic regional network of independent journalists running their own digital media projects in 20 countries. The organization will also target countries with restricted media environment training 60 journalists on how to develop their own independent digital media outlets, sharing best practices and success stories, and connecting them with members of the network in other countries.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Denouncing Violence Against the LGBTI Community in Latin America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness of growing violence against the LGBTI community in Latin America and to improve the quality of press coverage of those issues. The grantee will establish a portal to maximize the visibility ofvisibility of cases of violence and prejudice against the this community in Latin America. The organization will also produce a manual on good practices for journalistic coverage of LGBTI issues and organize several workshops to increase the quality and rigor of press coverage of these issues in the region. During the first year, this program will focus on Argentina, Chile, Peru and Paraguay.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $60,725
Project Title: Enhancing Governance through Improved Fiscal Policy in Central America
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To improve democratic governance in Central America through a focus on fiscal and budget issues, anti-corruption initiatives, and open government work. The grantee will use its expertise to improve the understanding of policy makers and members of government on key fiscal issues that undermine good governance and will provide technical support for drafting various fiscal reform and public finance initiatives. It will also enhance its coordination with key civil society organizations in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to strengthen transparency and anti-corruption efforts.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $85,000
Project Title: Promoting the Application of International Standards of Freedom of Expression
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To promote the application of international standards of freedom of expression, access to public information, and journalist safety. The organization will train judges, specialists, prosecutors and other justice workers in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru. Building upon its experience developing a comprehensive toolkit for judicial schools, the group will carry out six thematic modules in each country. Throughout the grant, the organization will evaluate the judges' jurisprudence and monitor if they apply the freedom of expression international standards in their decisions.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $49,871
Project Title: Latin American Connections for Political Innovation (CLIP)
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: _ Latin America & Caribbean Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen the capacity of a new generation of democratic civil society activists to participate in policymaking processes. The organization will strengthen and expand the Latin American Connections for Political Innovation Initiative. It will enhance the capacities of civil society activists and emerging actors to overcome the challenges they face as actual or potential policymakers, and bolster their ability to design, plan, and execute effective political and policy responses to the demands for public security that safeguards human rights, transparency and anticorruption.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $75,000
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